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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Humans

Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Intelligence agencies have found that crowds of everyday people can forecast events with surprising accuracy. Now we’re running our own experiment

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crowd of people

Life

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

Features

An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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Trump supporters

Humans

Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

Technology

Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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beard

Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

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A spinning carousel

Humans

We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

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A baby looking inquisitively to its left

Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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classroom scene

Health

People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Children playing on a bouncy castle

Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

A study of Scottish families hints that DNA mutations that damage health also impair intelligence. CRISPR gene-editing may be a way to boost brain and body

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Health

Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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